An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

The Storms Before the CalmResourceful programmer Dee Baker is getting worried about climate change. Food prices are skyrocketing, the drought out west deepening, and the storms won't quit. When her intrusive Fortune 100 media employer forbids her to attend the escalating riots, Dee defies them to visit a rally, and see for herself what they're trying to hide.Civilly Disobedient is a short prequel to the Calm Act series.

No garden space? Wrong season?Grow fresh vegetables indoors, year-round. And brighten your life.The salad vegetables we eat fresh can grow indoors - lettuce, kale and Asian greens, herbs, cucumbers, beans, peppers, and even tomatoes. The lights they crave off-season can brighten your mood, too.Starting from what these crops need to succeed, Indoor Salad explores techniques to meet those needs - from the humble CFL lightbulb, to container gardening, ...

When Denver breaks under climate collapse, 61-year-old Claire Cutler loses it all—and joins a gran caravan to stop surviving and start living.The crash doesn't come all at once, across the whole country. For Claire Cutler and her bad-influence friend Lisa, it starts the day Colorado goes bankrupt. They're both laid off from their state jobs.The New Dust Bowl has emptied the plains. Climate refugees flood into Denver. There's no housing, no food, no work—and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sass versus AI!Sanctuary, high-tech paradise with small-town charm!Leave a message at the beep.In a flash of old-fashioned warp, Sass’s crew catches up in time to Prosper.Eager to greet a new world, instead Sass’s comms are blocked by an AI from hell.Sanctuary is refuge to the Colony Corps, who transported refugees from Earth to the stars. Compared to Thrive’s home moon Mahina, it’s a paradise. People are heal...

Pirates, slavers, and deviants!Captain Sass Collier leads her motley crew across the treacherous rings of gas giant Pono, seeking a cure for the steady decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina’s sister moon.To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her decrepit skyship. Her crew of would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job.But no one else is willing to try.Only the deranged ...

Every ruin tells a storyAcross the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars—and vanished.Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity’s encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The heroes left behind.Sass Collier and the Thrive vanished a decade ago to visit another star. Most of her crew stayed behind on their home moon.Ben Acosta, captain of the ringship Prosper, still joyfully plies the spaceways. Until his ex decides to head into space with an audacious plan.The Thrive crew reunites to test a faster-than-light breakthrough that could change everything.Experimental conditions may be adv...

Without warning, Hilo Hawaii is destroyed by a tsunami from the Big One in California.Chopper pilot Reyna sees the tsunami unfolding firsthand, and gets those evacuation sirens sounding.Navy officer Tim Kimura coordinates disaster response, earning promotion to Resource Coordinator for all of Hawai'i. He's suddenly responsible for rationing for 1.5 million people, under martial law in a crashed economy. It's an impossible job.But while in Hilo, Tim ...

When the ocean changes, everything is at risk.Fish vanish. Storms grow violent. Air grows thin. Coastal communities are drowning under pressure.Ten years after the tsunami, Long Island's leader proposes a bold solution: a floating city. Cam believes it could save both his fisheries and his people. But first he needs someone who can win hearts and minds.He turns to Dee Baker. Adventurer. Sailor. Reluctant believer.To see if this concept can w...

Five months there. Five months back.And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space.Denali is one hell of a trip.But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony.Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured.But Denali holds another prize beyond th...